Czech Cuisine
Are halušky and škubánky a mystery to you? Have you ever heard of lívance and vdolky? Then you’re on the right track with this culinary...
Prager Tagebuch
In this poetic diary, literary historian Peter Becher guides us through a Prague reality deeper than the touristy façade. This sensitive...
Gestern abend im Café
This lavish edition sweeps the reader into the lost world of old imperial Prague: it includes over a thousand historic photographs and...
Kindheit in Wien
There are now fewer and fewer voices who can tell us about their childhoods in the 1940s and 1950s. Helmut Birkhan, long-serving medieval...
Prag empfing uns als Verwandte
In December 1936, the Nazi state stripped Thomas Mann of his German citizenship. But this blow missed its mark – the Nobel laureate and most...
The Spanish Flu
A hundred years ago, as the First World War came to an end after four brutal years, a lethal pandemic was gaining ground: the Spanish...
Prague Tales from the Little Quarter
Jan Neruda first unveiled his Prague Tales from the Little Quarter in 1878. These stories usher the reader back to the first half of the...
Two Prague Stories
This book is sheer past. Homeland and childhood – both of them long remote – form its background. – Today I would not have written it this...
Fips’ Birthday
The Golden Lane in Prague. In the past, its charming and colourful little houses were mainly inhabited by simple and poor people. For many...
Meditation
Kafka’s little meditations form something previously unknown in German literature; I know no model.
Hans Kohn in Selbstwehr (Dec. 20, 1912)
...Johann Strauss
Popularly known as the Waltz Kings, Johann Strauss I and II shaped the musical fortunes of Austria for almost a century. The father brought...
The Golden Lane
A museum guide to the Goldmakers’ Lane featuring rare images, background information and a wealth of details.
According to legend, the...
Kafkas Verwandlung
The illustrator has created a parody of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis in the style of the author’s own drawing “Man with Walking Stick”....